The Cottonwood Common Garden in 2025
By Fort Collins Science Center
February 2025 (approx.)
Detailed Description
Researchers, including Jonathan Friedman (pictured here) planted cottonwoods in this Common Garden plot in 2005, and since have monitored the growth and phenology of these trees. Every year since 2017, they cut back the trees to remove the confounding effect of age. Current plans include using this long-term data to calibrate a phenological model relating cottonwood phenology to daily variation in temperature and daylength. Photo by Janet Prevéy (USGS).
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FORT Cottonwood Common Garden
FORT scientists established a Common Garden at the Colorado State Forest Service Nursery in Fort Collins, Colorado in 2005 to study the phenology of riparian cottonwood in relation to annual variation in temperature. Phenology is the seasonal timing of life history events including leaf opening, flowering, seed release, bud formation and leaf senescence.
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FORT Cottonwood Common Garden
FORT scientists established a Common Garden at the Colorado State Forest Service Nursery in Fort Collins, Colorado in 2005 to study the phenology of riparian cottonwood in relation to annual variation in temperature. Phenology is the seasonal timing of life history events including leaf opening, flowering, seed release, bud formation and leaf senescence.